Rigoletto: Guerbaca Luisi / Zurich Opera Petean Kurzak Pirgu Mastroni

Grand festivities are held at the court of the Duke of Mantua. But the community which enjoys itself no longer knows values and amuses itself out of deadly boredom. The most cynical of all is court jester Rigoletto. He only wants to protect his daughter Gilda against the depraved world. He prohibits her everything - the young woman, however, goes her own way. On the first DVD of the new label Philharmonia Records we present Giuseppe Verdi's popular opera Rigoletto live from the Opernhaus Zrich. Therewith, Director Tatjana Grbaca - chosen as the Director of the Year 2013 by the Opernwelt - succeeded in producing a scenically reduced as well as expressively poetic production, acclaimed by press and public alike. Fabio Luisi, general music director of the Opernhaus Zrich and one of the leading interpreters of Italy's opera repertory, stands at the desk of the Philharmonia Zrich.